Wednesday, August 01, 2007

Recently I have been telling myself to read more and waste less time online. That mission, as the recent spurt in junk posts indicates, has failed miserably. Apart from Harry Potter and 'The Complete Bible Handbook' by John Bowker, I haven't read anything useful for a while now.

Anyway, in the infinite blog hopping loops that I have been making, I have observed a curious phenomenon. That of, experienced pros being harassed by absolute newbies who don't seem to have a clue about reading newspapers! If you believe whatever you see on print, you should probably not read at all!

So heres an expert (?!) guide to Indian News media. I have compiled a list of sources, my opinion of their journalism and their supposed political affiliations.

hmm... I have been reading Indian Express everyday for few years now. The general tone of the articles and the amount of print space allocated to BJP seems to point to a bias. (not that i'm complaining!!)

besides several right wing/bjp stalwarts regularly write on IE. Sudheendra Kulkarni, Tavleen Singh, Soli Sorabjee and occasionally Arun Shourie (ok, he was the former IE editor himself!), Arun Jaitley and Balbir Punj. Even without editorial intervention these articles may provide the BJP point of view. but I feel IE is also happy to be center-right and pro-BJP.